My first paper is out in Protein Science ! 🎉 We developed 𝗘𝗻𝘇𝘆𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗳 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿 to find catalytic residues in protein structures by matching them against 6,780 3D catalytic templates from the 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝘁𝗹𝗮𝘀. DOI: doi.org/10.1002/pro....

KI-generierte Bilder zeigen makellose Haut, schlanke Körper, ewige Jugend. Was das mit unserem Selbstbild macht und warum uns das Wissen darum kaum schützt, erklärt @schnamo.bsky.social in der neuen Folge unseres Podcasts. Hier anhören www.dizh.uzh.ch/2026/03/11/d...

Der perfekte Körper. Wenn Algorithmen Schönheit definieren - DIZH

Was ist schön? Gesellschaftliche Vorstellungen von Schönheit gab es schon immer: in der Antike in Stein gemeisselt, später auf Leinwand gemalt, im 20. Jahrhundert ins Kino und in Magazine übertragen.…...

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UnRealBody zeigt, wie generative KI unser Schönheitsverständnis verändert und welche Risiken daraus für Jugendliche entstehen. Mehr Informationen www.dizh.uzh.ch/2025/11/17/u... @jannahastings.bsky.social @schnamo.bsky.social @muhrlizza.bsky.social

Come to the BOKR session at 2:20 and see Charlotte Tumescheit @schnamo.bsky.social give a super interesting talk about improving prediction of molecular properties by incorporating ontologies. #ISMBECCB2025

Come and see me in the ice rink if you want to plot phylogenies in matplotlib! Poster 206. GitHub.com/KatyBrown/plot_phylo #ISMBECCB2025

Excited for the ISMB/ECCB conference! I have two posters A520 today about an endogenous and exogenous virus I found in nematodes - and B206 tomorrow about my tool plot_phylo for drawing phylogenies in matplotlib. #ISMBECCB2025

New Review Paper Alert! Are you interested in how to use AI to decode RNA? Check it out here www.nature.com/articles/s41... @jannahastings.bsky.social @vincentjung.bsky.social

Decoding the interactions and functions of non-coding RNA with artificial intelligence - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Studying RNA function is constrained by limitations of traditional methods. This Roadmap discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance the study of how non-coding regions of mRNA regulate its...

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New Online! Decoding the interactions and functions of non-coding RNA with artificial intelligence

Decoding the interactions and functions of non-coding RNA with artificial intelligence

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 19 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41580-025-00857-wStudying RNA function is constrained by limitations of traditional methods. This Roadmap discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance the study of how non-coding regions of mRNA regulate its function, and suggests how to use AI to harness publicly available data towards that goal.

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🧬 Are you into endogenous viral elements? If yes (and you should be, they are pretty cool) I highly recommend getting in touch with the amazing Katy via the sign up sheet! 🦠

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I'm thinking of organising a meeting on endogenous viral elements (RNA, DNA and retroviral) - if you'd potentially be interested, please fill out the form here - forms.gle/wrCiWMw4yXZe... - so I can gauge interest. Please RT or share with anyone maybe interested! 🧪🧬🖥️🦠 #virology #bioinformatics

#Wanted: Our Medical Knowledge and Decision Support Group #IfIS seeks a PhD candidate in #AI for #Metabolism (80%) to join the MetaboLinkAI project jointly funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social 📩 Apply by 31 March 2025 ➡️ jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... @jannahastings.bsky.social

UZH: PhD Position in AI for Metabolism

The Medical Knowledge and Decision Support Group at the University of Zurich is seeking an enthusiastic PhD candidate to join the MetaboLinkAI project, jointly funded by the Swiss National Science Fou...

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NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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My tool plot_phylo is now available through @pyopensci! Used to plot a phylogenetic tree using matplotlib functionality, so mpl can be used for additional annotation. Very smooth and helpful process with lots of useful feedback. www.pyopensci.org/python-packa... github.com/KatyBrown/pl... 🧪🧬🖥️

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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

Nsikan Akpan@monscience.bsky.social · 2y ago

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Hello Bluesky community :) Would like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to some selected bioinformatics work I did together with @thekatybrown.bsky.social, if you are dealing with multiple sequence alignments it might be useful! peerj.com/articles/129...

Check out our recently published paper about evaluating AI-generated images! Wonderful work together with @jannahastings.bsky.social @muhrlizza.bsky.social and more! www.cureus.com/articles/308...

Evaluating Text-to-Image Generated Photorealistic Images of Human Anatomy

Background: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models that can produce photorealistic images from text descriptions have many applications in medicine, including medical education and the generat...

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“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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